Vow, this manga sucks. It's supposd to be a josei, but i found a lot of horrible, awful cliches i unfortunetly see often in the 90s shojo titles and hated them. But take a look to what only the manga is.
The story is about traained assasins by a obnoxious queen to kill neighboor countries' king just because...the queen is evil. Just that, she raise little girls to be assasins, put in danger their lives and the kingdoms because she's just a hateful bitch. Don't search realistic motivations to characters, they just doesn't exist in this manga.
The main character, Lycoris, is a extreme doormant, passive heroine. Or i should say damsel in distress. She's supposed to be a trained professional assassin, but has a whinny emo teenage girl's personality, every monologue by her is tp complain about how she can love. I love when the female protagonist has such awful priorities. She could worry about her kingdom, the other girls they are training to become assasins like her...Well, a lot of stuff i found more important that nobody can kiss me. In the last chapters, she just let herself being loocked away and thanks the guy who loocked her away.
I think i said enough about our protagonist. Don't worry, there's characters more hateful in this. Like a dethroned prince that he's the worst Lelouch Lamperouge wannabe you'll ever see, the aforementioned bitchy queen...there's some nice characters, but they got few screentime and get killed quickly, while other characters you have to wait until the last three chapters to see them die.
The author must think character development means show flashbacks with every character's backstory, and made all of them look really sad and depressing to make them seem sympathetic to the readers. Well, that's not always works, specially when you put too much effort in the flash-backs, and don't develop the main story, and that's the case here.
Forced drama, cliches, horrible pacing, passive heroine...the story is a huge mess.
You must think, well, something good it should have, the art, for example. Okay, my dear friends, unfortunetly, the art belong to the school of dress porn that are completely useful to the story, with scenes like assassins that fight in a forest dressing as gothic lolitas. Anathomy is painful to watch, and the figures look static, withforced posses. The faces look really plain in some scenes, specially when they're crying, bleeding and smiling, and dear god, what sexy has a guy's face while forcefully puking?Someone can exlain it to me.
I just read this until the end because when i completed, i could just say: Vow, this manga sucks. Avpid it, there are so much better titles to read out there.